Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

[Harmoni]

Anyone want to take a guess on our babies? They are about 4 weeks old from tsc.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Anyone want to take a guess on our babies? They are about 4 weeks old from tsc.

Good straight on close ups of the combs would be helpful.
You took some great pics, but unfortunately the formatting will not allow me to see them enlarged. Posting individually works best.

Grumpy and Speckle are unconfirmed, not obviously cockerels as of yet.

Chipmunk looks like a pullet by coloring.

Goldy is probably a cockerel with the black breast coming in. They will change a lot in the next few weeks, and if the black continues to come in, expect a boy.

 

[Harmoni]

Good straight on close ups of the combs would be helpful.
You took some great pics, but unfortunately the formatting will not allow me to see them enlarged. Posting individually works best.

Grumpy and Speckle are unconfirmed, not obviously cockerels as of yet.

Chipmunk looks like a pullet by coloring.

Goldy is probably a cockerel with the black breast coming in. They will change a lot in the next few weeks, and if the black continues to come in, expect a boy.

Pics from left to right:
Goldie, Chipmunk, Grumpy, Speckle

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Got on my laptop to see better.

Grumpy and Speckle... I can only see a tiny bit of the comb, not enough to tell. You should post some new pics next week. EE chicks all start out looking like pullets until the male characteristics start showing up, usually by 6-8 weeks, sometimes sooner. Male combs are lumpier and wider than pullet combs and the coloring on male wings is often patchy red. Chipmunk is a good example of pullet coloring... a very small, even pattern on her wings.

Chipmunk still looks like a pullet, by comb and coloring.

Unfortunately on Goldie, the comb is out of focus. I will say I have never seen a pullet with Goldie's coloring get a black breast (unless it was a black bird).

Hope you can post updated pics next week so we can see how they are doing.

Are they sexed pullets or straight run?

 

[Harmoni]

Got on my laptop to see better.

Grumpy and Speckle... I can only see a tiny bit of the comb, not enough to tell. You should post some new pics next week. EE chicks all start out looking like pullets until the male characteristics start showing up, usually by 6-8 weeks, sometimes sooner. Male combs are lumpier and wider than pullet combs and the coloring on male wings is often patchy red. Chipmunk is a good example of pullet coloring... a very small, even pattern on her wings.

Chipmunk still looks like a pullet, by comb and coloring.

Unfortunately on Goldie, the comb is out of focus. I will say I have never seen a pullet with Goldie's coloring get a black breast (unless it was a black bird).

Hope you can post updated pics next week so we can see how they are doing.

Are they sexed pullets or straight run?

They were sexed pullets.
Here's another pic of Goldie.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

My experience from TSC and another place where I buy chicks locally is that they might as well be straight run even though they say they are sexed. I got two Easters from TSC one year. Here are photos of them grown. The chipmunk one was a boy. The speckle one was a girl.

 

[Yabadabadoo]

Pullet? S/He looks really almost indistinguishable from my other three little eggers. All should be sexed (pullets), but this one’s behavior is very different. S/he is much bolder, more assertive and watches over the rest of the flock, basically behaving like the one rooster with my older birds. S/He is a bout 10 weeks.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Pullet? S/He looks really almost indistinguishable from my other three little eggers. All should be sexed (pullets), but this one’s behavior is very different. S/he is much bolder, more assertive and watches over the rest of the flock, basically behaving like the one rooster with my older birds. S/He is a bout 10 weeks.

That's a pullet.

 

[Yabadabadoo]

That's a pullet.

Thank you. I didn’t think she looked roostery, she’s just so... (personality). Appreciate it.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Thank you. I didn’t think she looked roostery, she’s just so... (personality). Appreciate it.

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